We ordered the roasted duck, vegetable spring rolls, wonton soup, and tea. Everything was pretty good and hit the spot. Nice place for a casual Chinese meal. read more

Lido - Wonton soup & spring rolls - Chinese Near Me - London, XGL

Came to the West End for a show and we were looking for dinner and of course we had to pop into Chinatown. A lot of places were closing but this place was nice enough to let us pop in!! I order the szcheuan chicken and overall the price for the food was good! Was it the most stellar food ever? No but it was delicious for what it was. The portions were huge but I just found it a little bland. I ordered the fried rice with my dish and it was just plain white rice that came with it. read more

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5 of us went after work and ordered the chicken, eggplant, squid, fried rice, and hot tea. Everything single bite was delicious. That's the best sweet and sour chicken I've ever had! They kept refilling our teapot, which was greatly appreciated. Very nice, comfortable, and even though it was full, didn't feel crowded. read more

Lido - Fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, eggplant. - Chinese Near Me - London, XGL

pretty ok chinese food in london's chinatown! big servings, lots of options! love how they offer a smaller crispy duck portion so you can enjoy pecking duck without all the fuss! read more

Went in for lunch, was "ok" at best but wouldn't go back. I ordered the 174 stir fried chicken with black bean sauce, and what I got was a small plate of stir fried chicken with black bean sauce that looked like a child's plate. It was good but way too small of a helping. Plus, I wish they would automatically tell you if rice comes with, it didn't and I didn't want to wait for it. My dining partner fared worse. He ordered the 233 Stir fried Ho fun (mixed seafood) but we only counted 2 small shrimp in a large plate of rice noodles. He reported that his was "ok" but greasy and didn't eat all of it. read more

Food is not bad but the service is awful and charges too much service fee. We were charged £2.6 for each small bowl of rice and the price was not listed. The three of us consumed 5 bowls which cost us £13 for just rice. We ordered £50 dishes and were charged £12.5 for the service fee. This is outrageous. read more

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Solid food in Chinatown, wait was short which brought us here. Had the meal for two which included: dim sum, soup, duck, and two entrees which was enough for 3-4 imo. Exactly what we expected, left stuffed and very happy. Extensive menu that has everything you would want, wish I could of tried more to be honest. Great staff as well. read more

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Well I thought it was way better than the average reviewer. I love duck. Crispy, fatty, salty, served with hoisin sauce, pancakes, and some shredded onions/leeks/unsure. A 1/4 duck is enough for two to share (provided you order a second dish), and I just love the presentation. They bring it out whole, and then sit there and shred it in front of you, removing all that meat from the bone with ease. What's left is a melange of deliciousness. I love it. Also, what they call "Ho Fun," I call "Chow Fun." You know, the broad white rice noodles usually stir fried a la Lo Mein or fried rice. Although i felt their version could have used a little more salt, I threw on a little soy sauce, and it was great. It was a Christmas Dinner. I'm a Jew... this is what we do. So my wife and I chose well. Christmas in London, provided by the Chinese. Xie Xie. read more

This is one of the worst Chinese restaurants I've ever been to in London. The service is awful, waiters never smile and treat customers as an inconvenience. I went today with my friend and we were quickly ushered out after our meal because "there were other people waiting", although the restaurant was 2/3 empty. The food was also mediocre... Prepared very simply and overly salty. It's generous to give this place one star as my friend and I were treated very disrespectfully and we will certainly never come back again. read more

Low key storefront. Good basic Hongkong style Chinese food. I particularly like the Beef with Pepper Sauce. The Beef was tender and the Pepper Sauce was excellent. We also enjoyed the Pei Pa Tofu with minced Shrimp and Crab. The Yee Fu Noodles was also excellent. The Chinese Cabbage with Garlic Sauce and the Braised Tofu with Oyster Sauce was well executed. Lido did not seem to be the place to choose in London Chinatown to have a basic meal. There were no long lines of customers clamoring to go in, the restaurant was not packed with Chinese customers and the storefront was not fancy. However, Lido serves good basic Chinese food for a reasonable price. read more

Wandering through Chinatown with the wifey and randomly decided to try out Lido. Not sure why we wanted Chinese food, but when the mood strikes for rice, you don't suppress it. The place is nondescript, clean, and utterly indistinguishable from the multitude of other Chinese restaurants nearby. This is neither good or bad. Staff are efficient and accommodating, but not very chit-chatty if ya know what I mean... We ordered a range of items from the menu including poultry, fish, veggies, and a clay pot braise. Some hits, some misses, but nothing spectacularly great or terrible. Decent chinese food (we're Chinese, so we ought to know). Factor in the dollar/UK pound conversion rate, and Lido loses a star for value. Guess we should've had a Guinness for dinner. read more

This was the most wonderful food we've had in a very long time. We were attracted by the reasonable price. Some of the restaurants can be very much more expensive. We were greeted quickly. I ordered the Salt and Pepper Prawns. They were freshly breaded. A very light breading. For £12, I received 8 very nice size deveined and detailed. It was soooo tasty! We also ordered the fried pork dumplings. What I liked about them is the were not mostly dough!! My partner ordered some kind of spicy pork. It came with onion, peppers, etc. You need to order the rice separately. It was fabulous!!!!! There are so many to choose from. As a tourist, I'm so glad we lucked up and ate here. We went back 2 days later. It was definitely a high light of our trip to London. read more

I came here with a friend to celebrate Chinese New Year, Year of the Sheep! OK, we mainly came to see the colourful parade and as an excuse to eat Dim Sum. As if you need an excuse to eat Dim Sum!! It got to 11:30am and frankly we were hungry. So we went for it. Brunch Dim Sum, why not! We were welcomed in with typical Chinese restaurant welcome, brisk and efficient. It was a good thing actually we came early, after about half an hour you would not have got a seat anywhere in Chinatown. In true Dim Sum style, we went for one too many dishes than needed. I always seem to do that somehow, but Dim Sum is just SO TASTY. It was also nice to go to Dim Sum with another person who had been before, so you didn't have to try and explain with the idea behind Chinese dumplings. We ordered Char Siu buns (Bau), Prawn Dumplings (Siu Mai), Pork Dumplings (Har Gau), Vietnamese spring rolls, sticky rice in lotus leaf, Turnip cake, Calamari and Sweet BBQ fried dumplings. All wonderful with the exception of the sticky rice, which ironically was a bit too sticky and glutinous for my liking - I think it dampens the flavour. Also for the price, how can I complain - £3 per dim sum, more than full enough between the two of us for £17 each. YES PLEASE read more

Extremely beautiful restaurant. Excellent food and service. I recommend their duck dishes!!!

As a Chinese, I can say that the food here is terrible..... They are very pricey, having strange taste, which is surely different from real Chinese food. My friend and I occasionally passed by and decided to have our lunch here. We were fascinated by the menu they have---there are many different kinds of food on the menu. So we went in. We had pretty simple order: a bowl of soup, a plate of vegetable, meet and a bowl of rice. But obviously the taste of food disappointed us. Only the rice and vegetable is fine--I think it's because they can be easily cooked. The meet and soup is just horrible. The meet here is over-cooked, and the soup--they are added so many artificial flavors, too much salt, and oil. The chicken soup I drank contain a lot of chicken, but it didn't taste a real chicken soup, but like liquid that was made together with instant noodle. Finally we paid about 28 pounds, which seemed to be a ridiculous price for this terrible meal. Hope you will not come to eat--- THIS RESTAURANT IS A TOURIST TRAP. I WILL NEVER ADMIT IT IS COOKING "CHINESE FOOD." 如果你是中国人，也请不要到这里来吃，因为它的确又贵又难吃。如果要找吃的，去大众点评上找点评论多的吧。刚到这家店的时候，我看到那里只有两三条评论就知道它不会好吃了。 read more

Great place if you want quick service and piping-hot delicious food - it was a lucky stumble with some friends one lunchtime (great value lunch menu) and I visited there again most recently with my partner for an evening meal. Service was speedy and very friendly; each dish was well-cooked (if a touch too salty for our palate) and the Singapore noodles, in particular, was fabulous. Good choice of restaurant if you are with a group of friends and looking for decent food and an OK price. read more

Went there 3 times in a row while in London. The staff is really nice and propably the best service we had here. Great food as well! if you like chicken satay I can strongly recommend this dish. Also the duck in orange Sauce was really good too. read more

We ate here last night Friday Dec 28th.. 2018 My wife ordered a duck based rice dish. Unfortunately there was no sign of any duck meat, just strings of fat mixed in the rice, presumably from the edges of the meat someone else may have got. And to add insult to injury, while we were still finishing a glass of wine the waiter placed the bill on the table!! Can you believe that.. As we left I complained we were not happy being offered the bill before we had even finished. It was met with a mumbled few words which I think included the word sorry. huh!! NEVER AGAIN. read more

LIDO is another one of my favourite Dim-Sum restaurants to visit when I am in china town. My friends and I tend to come here as the food is nice and the service is pretty good the majority of the time. It's over two floors and pretty spacious. If you're not sure where to go then it's a place to try out if you haven't. Oh they do the fried pork and chive dumplings that not many other restaurants do. read more

Dropped in on the off chance and we were seated promptly. We ordered off the set menu with a couple of substitutions. To start with I was very impressed but soon found that the spare rib was undercooked. Our tablecloth was stained from the previous diners and the service is a little brusque. Apart from that we enjoyed the rest of the meal and the final bill I thought was quite reasonable. If you want reasonable Chinese food fast you could do worse but I wouldn't recommend it for a romantic night out for 2. read more

Lido - Chinese Near Me - London, XGL

For dinner on the second night of our London honeymoon, my husband and I found ourselves in China Town's Lido. The hostess was outside the door dressed in street clothes--we accidentally walked right past her before we noticed. Thanks to the extensive appetizer and dim sum selections, we ordered several of each. The shredded fried chicken was delicious, especially dipped in the accompanying sauce. Not one for dim sum normally, I trusted my husband to order. The pork belly and crab were not my cup of tea, but the prawn dumplings were pretty good--and the bbq pork buns were the best I've ever had. I wished I would have ordered more! read more

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Pretty much my favourite place in ChinaTown. The food is always good quality and fast and the staff are friendly. Some times the staff can try and rush you a little but I just ignore it unless it's really crazy busy. Fair prices and even the house wine is nice. read more

I'm typically a nice and relaxed person but this place brought out a fire in me, I'm just not sure I can put it into words. The service was, hands down, the worst I have ever experienced and I would not recommend this establishment to even my worst enemy. The food was bland, uncooked, and not worth the money. When my friend ordered two things, the man who brought the food essentially called her fat saying, "are you trying to get bigger?" When we brought it up to the cashier, she waved her hand rudely in my face, insinuating me to stop talking. She then denied that it happened, saying it was her boss. We received a condescending apology and we're still forced to pay the service fee. Clearly this restaurant needs to reevaluate their management and service procedures. read more

Extremely rude service. When my friend ordered two dishes, the server asked her if she was "trying to get big." We brought up the hurtful service while paying, and the server dismissed us. Whoever eats there is making the wrong decision. read more

Decent Chinese food; actually, the Chinese food is pretty good as compared to the other Chinese restaurants I've tried outside of New York. The duck tasted pretty good but the tofu was better. The scrambled egg with string bean was decent, not dry. The vegetable, sweet and sour pork and pan fried chicken with pepper were all mediocre. Overall, it was pretty good. read more

Lido (along with Joy King Lau) is one of the two best Dim Sum restaurants in the West End serving authentic Cantonese food. The ground floor is spacious, with many good sized tables - espcially good for young children and pushchair access, and the staff are usually very welcoming (though at busy times can be difficult to draw attention to). The dim sum and lunch dishes are excellent. Well cooked & seasoned in the Hong Kong style, and arrive hot and within 10 mins of ordering. The seafood dishes are only slightly not as good as Joy King Lau (probably just the seasoning difference), but everything else is equal. We come here frequently for lunch with family & friends, and have not had a negative experience over the last several years (though it was disappointing when they closed for refurbishment in mid 2010). read more

On top of the meal being mediocre, The service was incredibly rude - when my friend ordered two things from the menu the waiter basically called her fat asking if she was "trying to get big." Then when we brought this up when we were trying to pay the person charging us did not believe us, overall the experience was very unpleasant and the comment ruined our night. read more

I stumbled on this establishment Monday evening 5/29/17. I found the service to be very attentive, and warm. I asked for hot tea with my meal, and received a very full pot. Later asking for water too, received a glass of iced water. The meal for me consisted of wonton soup, followed by sliced duck with ginger, and pineapple. I finished it with a portion of steamed rice. I found the soup to be flavorful with large dumplings. I was asked if I'd prefer the use of a fork/knife. I choose to stay with chopsticks. The duck dish included sliced peppers, onions, and was plentiful enough to complete my night. I wasn't rushed. Everything came out in a timely manner. I was too full to enquire about dessert. I was surprised when a table of ladies in front of me requested their service charge be removed from their check. I enjoyed my meal so much I tipped the server an additional few pounds. Should I make it back to china town in a few years, I hope to try a few additional dishes. read more

TERRIBLE SERVICE.Sent(threw,because it's a big pop sound cane out) me the main course first without saying anything.After that they sent me the desert then when I was almost finished my main course they finally sent me the APPETISERS!!!And the food's not delicious and some of it's not fresh!!! read more

If the English were to open up a Chinese restaurant this is what you would get. About the most bland Chinese food I've ever had including in buffet form read more

Lido has been a family favorite since 1975 (my parents used to eat here all the time when they lived in London). Now, every time we go back to London we have to visit Lido. My husband and I were in London in March 2013 and ate here twice because it's so good -- order the aromatic duck and bok choy. read more

we were recommended this place from people we me on the street. when we first walked in, the placed was full with about 97% chinese, which was a good sign. the ambiance is like all other chinese restaurants all over the world. decent style, tacky decoration and basic amenities. unlike the US, they do not bring the cart to your table, you must order from a menu. we are 2 adults with 2 adult size kids. we spent about USD$120 and did not get completely stuffed. so, no it was not cheap but not way out there either. based on the prices, it was higher than most other dim sum places in the area. the quality of the dim sum was authentic but boring. the reason for my low stars were mainly for service and creative math. they are super rude and unresponsive if you need something. conversely, they are super quick when you want to pay, but slow if you need water or any "special request" like chili. i asked for a small side of fresh chili and soy sauce to dip with my dim sum and they wanted to charge GBP$2 for it. NUTS! i eat very spicy and ask for this kind of stuff all the time at other asian restaurants in other parts of the world with no problem. i had to beg for water refill and ask many times. when the bill came, they were super quick and i tried to add up the math and it would not add up. so, they showed it to me on the calculator and i found out they add 10% tip with every meal no matter the size of he party. i was told by other Londoners that this was sometimes practiced by restaurants and we had the option to pay or not pay the tip added to the bill. so, i made them change the amount and they were not happy. but, i made do it anyway. i HATE any restaurants that hold their customers in hostage because they feel they can do it because we are in their place of business. you have us as a captive audience once we start eating BUT, it does not mean that we are stupid enough to not do the math and pay you things that you did NOT earn, like your total lack of service. read more